Homicidal Thoughts May Be Key To Identifying Chronic Offenders
New research from Iowa State University is one of the first studies to explore offenders who display very real thoughts of murder.
Tag: Mental Health
The Psychopath Test: A Compelling Adventure Into The World Of Madness
Psychopaths are all around us so a famous psychologist says. Jon Ronson in this acclaimed book ‘The Psychopath Test’ uncovers the dark and seedy side of society, the one nobody ...
A Tragedy Born From Postpartum Mental Illness: The Case of Andrea Yates
On 20th June 2001 in Houston, Texas, Andrea Yates drowned her five children one after the other in the bathtub of her family home. Four sons, John (5), Luke (2), ...
Warnings Unheeded: Twin Tragedies at Fairchild Air Force Base
In the last week of June 1994, Fairchild Air Force base in Washington, DC found itself at the center of two devastating tragedies which took the lives of nine individuals ...
The Risk Of Criminal Victimisation In Mental Health Outpatients
Research from the Netherlands studied the self-reports of victims who had experienced abuse and criminal victimisation because of their mental illness.
Parents Who Kill: Murderous Mothers and Fatal Fathers
To take the life of your own child is beyond a criminal act. It is a violation of the trust a child has in the people they believe in the ...
How The Insanity Defence Against A Murder Charge Works
Understanding the insanity defence, what it means in the courtroom and how this matches with the number of people in prison with mental illnesses.
Murder For Slender Man: Fiction, Reality and Mental Illness
For children the lines between fiction and reality can often be blurred, as demonstrated in the recent Slenderman stabbing case.
Mental Illness and Violence: The Myth Behind Stranger Murders
The media representation of mental illness and violence is often inaccurate, even more so when a person is murdered by a stranger.
